Khalid: PR states could have own BTN
Selangor and other PR controlled states have mulled the idea of running their own Birotata Negara instead of sending their civil servants run by the BN federal government.
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Liow's faction vows to quit to force fresh polls
MCA central committee members aligned to vice-president Liow Tiong Lai have vowed to quit their posts in order to force fresh leadership polls. According to Liow, 13 of the elected central committee members have signed undated resignation letters and are waiting for the right time to submit them to the party.
Helpless victims of merciless sex predators
The Penan community is mystified with the slow reaction by the authorities, especially the police, in taking action against the sexual abuse, including rape of the Penan girl, as identified by a national task force. The Penan elders fear that the government will conveniently let the matter to rest while the Penan girls continue to face violations regularly. The report by the Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development, was compiled by a high-level task force, comprising government ...
Independence gone with the trees
For an outsider, the Penans are an unknown enigma. For the government, they are the blind spot that can be conveniently missed; and for the logging concessionaires and plantation kingpins, they are pure nuisance. However for those who know them, they are shy, genial and sensible people with a ready smile and plenty of love for the forest they call their home. Full story in Malaysiakini.com Story by K Kabilan Video by Indrani Kopal
It's still grade A for Suhakam
Despite speculations that the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) would be downgraded to 'B', the watchdog, often referred to as a 'paper tiger', managed to retain its 'A' status. However, Suhakam chairperson Abu Talib Othman said the Sub Committee for Accreditation (SCA) of the International Coordinating Committee of the National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC) has voiced two concerns. (The ICC is a body under the United Nations set up to ...
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Hindraf anniversary: Presenting PM with roses
In Putrajaya, Hindraf chairperson P Waythamoorty's daughter Vaishnavi and wife K Shanti attempted to hand over a letter containing the 18 demands at the Prime Minister's Office. They arrived about 2.45pm but ran into a stand-off with a representative of the premier's office. The group wanted the premier's representative to come out and meet them. Instead, five Hindraf representatives were invited into the office to deliver the letter. After 45 minutes, the group left the letter at the ...
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'Penans will die if jungle is destroyed'
"There are no more trees in my village. They have been logged away. Now they want to plant palm oil trees in this area." Penan village leader Unga Paren is on a mission. He wants his people to be able to continue living peacefully in their environment as they have been doing for thousands of years. He wants all form of harassments and pressures to uproot them from the villages by the logging companies and politicians - at most times working in tandem - to stop. Story by K Kabilan Video by ...
Khalid rubbishes 'OSA offence' claim
Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has trashed a claim that he violated the Official Secrets Act (OSA) by declassifying the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide report last week. khalid ibrahim 301009Speaking to reporters in Shah Alam today, he said the state government did not declassify the report, but only released "a general statement" on its contents. "The four-page report that we released was a general statement. It did not contain (details) and from what we understand from MPAJ ...
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